It’s December, 2017, and the general populace has realized that the communications infrastructure has been weaponized against them.

“The Ministry of Truth– Minitrue, in Newspeak — was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously.

They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.”

Specifically, IARC’s panel said that the evidence that mobile phones pose a health risk was “limited” for two types of brain tumours – glioma and acoustic neuroma – and “inadequate”when it comes to other types of cancer.

Specifically, IARC’s panel said that the evidence that mobile phones pose a health risk was “limited” for two types of brain tumours – glioma and acoustic neuroma – and “inadequate” when it comes to other types of cancer.

The study found no association between cell phone use and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1,640 hours in their lifetime without a head-set. Those participants were 40% more likelythan those who never used a cell phoneto have a glioma.

(In “Those participants were 40% more likely than those who never used a cell phone to have a glioma”, they inserted “than those who never used a cell phone” right in the middle, to chop up the more-impactful sentence, “40% more likely to have a glioma than those who never used a cell phone.” – ed)

Gloria Mark, professor in the department of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, says that when people are interrupted, it typically takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to return to their work, and most people will do two intervening tasks before going back to their original project. This switching leads to a build up of stress, she says, and so little wonder people who have high rates of neuroticism, impulsivity, and are susceptible to stress tend to switch tasks more than others.

October 27, 2016 – How Can Social Media Affect Your Health?| Sysomos

As these points illustrate, there’s no simple answer to whether social media is good or bad for you.

2017 – 7 Blue LightFacts: How Blue Light Is Both Bad and Good For You

March 17, 2017 – Giving up Your Smartphone Could Actually Be Bad for Your Health

May 2, 2017 – Are our phones f****ing us all up? — Motherhood: The Real Deal

Are phones bad for you – a piece about our obsession with phones from the UK parenting & lifestyle blog Motherhood: The Real Deal

June 2, 2017 – Increased risk for glioma associated with mobile phone use in Interphone Canada

The suicide rate among teenage girls continues to rise and hit a 40-year high in 2015, according to a new analysis released Thursday. Suicide rates doubled among girls and rose by more than 30 percent among teen boys and young men between 2007 and 2015.

(Uses ‘doubled‘ to hedge against the much-stronger “increased 100%.” Note again that the more-phone-addicted girls have the higher numbers – ed)